Peter Hughes

Striker - Aston Villa
15 Nov 2026
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Marked for Peter Hughes

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The Aston Villa Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Aston Villa

Boubacar Kamara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Amadou Onana falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match22 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Aston Villa against Tottenham

0‑1 to Tottenham, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Lucas Digne dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Leon Bailey

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Peter Hughes

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Peter Hughes, and the manager let it.

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The Aston Villa Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Tyrone Mings moves on

Newcastle United pay $5.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Rick Karsdorp would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Rick Karsdorp is living that version at Aston Villa, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Boubacar Kamara in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aston Villa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Aston Villa

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Aston Villa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amadou Onana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market17 Aug 2026

John Ellis steps up from the Aston Villa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. John Ellis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

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